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February 11, 2019Episode 554: Was Ja Rule Vaccinated?
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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather board the boat that never makes it to the Bahamas as Matt’s ski vacation unintentionally becomes a metaphor for the disastrous Fyre Festival.
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Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Episode 554: Was Ja Rule Vaccinated? originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]
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February 04, 2019 Episode 553: Where Did the Monkeys Go?
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Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather watch and react to this year’s super bowl ads. We for one welcome our status as useless monkeys in the post-work economy!
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Episode 553: Where Did the Monkeys Go? originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]
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January 28, 2019Episode 552: Death Actually Is All Around Us
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Matthew Belinkie, Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather find the intellectual, aesthetic, thematic, and music through-lines in the Coen Brother’s Academy Award-nominated netflix anthology film, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.
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Love Actually (2003), dir. Richard Curtis
Pulp Fiction (1994), dir. Quentin Tarantino
Crash (2004), dir. Paul Haggis
Go (1999), dir. Doug Liman
Stagecoach (1939), dir. John Ford
Dead man’s hand
Old Crow Medicine Show
Zen-Buddhist Stories
Episode 552: Death Actually Is All Around Us originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]
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January 21, 2019Episode 551: It Would Be Easier If “Raiders of the Lost Ark” Were Awful
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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, Jordan Stokes, and Matthew Wrather watch Indiana Jones and the Problematic Fave as they answer the scurrilous charge by another podcaster that Raiders of the Lost Ark belongs in the dustbin of history.
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Further Reading
Slate Political Gabfest — discussion of Raiders starts at 57:00
“Why Fans of Hamilton Should Be Delighted It’s Finally Stirring Criticism”
Indy Music: Theme, Love Theme, Ark Music
Great Marches of the 1980s: Stripes, Police Academy, The Empire Strikes Back
Walter Benjamin: “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”
Episode 551: It Would Be Easier If “Raiders of the Lost Ark” Were Awful originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]
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January 14, 2019Episode 550: The Birds and the Bees and the Buzzers
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Members receive extra audio recorded with each Overthinking It Podcast. This week, a special round of Jeopardy! written by Matt Belinkie, featuring clues about our favorite raspy-voiced celebrity, Harvey Feirstein!
Matthew Belinkie, new father Mark Lee, Peter Fenzel, and Matt Wrather discuss Jeopardy!, the perfect infant-care background TV show. Favorite game shows, what constitutes a game show, the cultural and political dynamics of the game, the role of Alex Trebek, and an actual round of Jeopardy on this episode.
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Jeopardy!
The Price Is Right
American Ninja Warrior
Cram
Hollywood Suqares
Middlebrow
Jeopardy! audition process
Alex Trebek
J-Archive
Episode 550: The Birds and the Bees and the Buzzers originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]
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January 07, 2019 Episode 549: How Do We Never Forget?
Matthew Belinkie, Peter Fenzel, and Matthew Wrather come together as a secretive cabal to overthink Vice, more a film with documents than a documentary; more a polemic than a biopic; a film as much concerned with argumentation as with storytelling.
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Episode 549: How Do We Never Forget? originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]
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December 31, 2018Episode 548: The Real Signs Are The Paper Ones
Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather read the signs of the times. They sing Auld Lang Sign. They print out a sign in comic sans. They drive on the interstate. They wonder if capitalism is truly “late.” They find their way on the highway and borrow a book from the diner.
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The Athlete’s Foot (Wikipedia)
Traveler Food and Books
Street signs of Los Angeles
Episode 548: The Real Signs Are The Paper Ones originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]
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December 24, 2018Episode 547: In Cherry Tree Lane the Cherry Blossoms Grow
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Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather overthink Mary Poppins Returns, but the various spoonfuls of sugar don’t make the medicine go down.
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Further Reading
“Cat People” by Louis Menand
The Golden Bowl by Henry James
“The Myth of Sysyphus” by Albert Camus
Julie Andrews: Loss of Singing Voice from Wikipedia
The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Three Act Destructure on Creed II in the comments on OTIP 544
SonicFox throws his hat off on YouTube
Episode 547: In Cherry Tree Lane the Cherry Blossoms Grow originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]
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December 17, 2018Episode 546: Eating My Old Man Kit-Kat
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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather swing in from several dimensions to overthink Sony’s new animated Spider-Man movie, Into The Spider-Verse. Matt doesn’t know the difference between John Mulaney and John Krasinski; Pete is sitting alone in a room full of teenagers; and Mark wonders if the movie is having it both ways.
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John Mulaney; John Krasinski
Spider Man: Into the Spider-Verse (one frickin’ bad review on RT)
Downton Abbey Film
Episode 546: Eating My Old Man Kit-Kat originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]
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December 10, 2018Episode 545: Ralph Breaks The Internet: A Really Proustian Movie
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Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather overthink Wreck It Ralph 2: Ralph Breaks the Internet, a movie engineered to make children happy and adults sad.
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Fabula and syuzhet
Récit and Discours
Mythos and Ethos from Aristotle’s Poetics
Marcel Proust
Red Pill
Twisted Metal
Episode 545: Ralph Breaks The Internet: A Really Proustian Movie originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]
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